Culture
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More than a piece of furniture: it is sometimes as if these old pianos have souls
Due to limitations of space and funds for maintenance, a decision was made to limit the university’s collection to the…
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UN Human Rights Committee finds Australia violated Torres Strait Islanders’ rights by failing to protect them from climate change
The groundbreaking finding by the UN Human Rights Committee was made in response to a complaint filed in 2019 by eight…
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Iranian Leaders Should Call Off Their Campaign of Repression
The death of Mahsa Amini has outraged citizens throughout Iran, setting off a protest wave. IGC If it wishes for…
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‘Sovereignty never ceded’: Burney says Queen would have understood dispossession
Burney, a Wiradjuri woman who is leading the push for an Indigenous Voice to parliament, said she grew up singing God…
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Explainer: Socrates and the life worth living
He was likened to a gadfly buzzing around while one is trying to sleep. Oscar Davis The Conversation The Oracle…
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How did the patriarchy start – and will evolution get rid of it?
In Afghanistan, the Taliban once again prowl the streets more concerned with keeping women at home and in strict dress…
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Bravery, insight and simmering fury: Australian female correspondents on speaking truth to power
It never has. Sue Joseph The Conversation I am always far more interested in elegantly rendered content. Whether it’s written…
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Judges go bush to learn about Indigenous culture, with aim to deliver fairer justice in courts
David Newry Nyoongoong is an accomplished Aboriginal elder, but he still remembers the day he was a skinny, scared 16-year-old…
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Turkey: Hundreds of churches and monasteries waiting to be ‘saved’
A hundred years after the 1913-23 genocide of Christians by Ottoman Turkey, the last remnants of the cultural and religious…
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I Wish My Friend Could Have Read Her Own Obituary
She died early last Wednesday, but if she’d held on a few more hours, I like to imagine that she…
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Jim, John, Bjorn and the GOAT
I doubt I fully appreciated the trouble my father had gone into to secure my first ever Centre Court ticket…
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In The Face of Lifelong Terror, Gaza Speaks Truth To Power
In 1985, when I was a first-grader, I was awakened by a hustle and bustle of noise downstairs. Refaat Alareer In These Times It was pitch…
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Vale Judith Durham, the cuddly Aussie ‘girl-next-door’ whose soaring voice found international fame
An icon of the Australian music industry as lead singer for The Seekers and a solo artist, hers was an…
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Statement from the Heart is a gift to the nation, not a grab for power
Not so much its passion as its clarity. Waleed Aly The Sydney Morning Herald Consider the language he used in…
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Why John Byrne is one of Scotland’s greatest artists
During an illustrious career he has traversed a number of cultural genres with success as an artist, playwright and scriptwriter…
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NoViolet Bulawayo’s new novel is an instant Zimbabwean classic
Through this she explores what happens when an authoritarian regime implodes, using characters who are horses, pigs, dogs, cows, cats,…
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